Colin McMahon

When a Hoffman Estates police officer shot and killed a man last week, some witnesses made much of the fact that the man was black and the officer white. Authorities...

When Rickey Allen was fatally shot Thursday by a Hoffman Estates police officer, it was a clear-cut case of a cop doing what was needed to protect another person, according...

Two Chicago men arrested in the shooting last week of a young Arlington Heights man were charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, a day after the youth died from injuries suffered...

United Airlines pilot Mark Wilkinson, being held without bond in Cook County Jail in the grisly slaying of his estranged wife, was taken to Cook County Hospital Friday for treatment...

A United Airlines pilot suspected of killing his former wife and dismembering her body was apprehended Wednesday night as he slept in a small office at a Grundy County airport,...

Prodded by dire warnings of wide-scale teacher layoffs and massive cutbacks to athletic and other extracurricular programs, voters in Arlington Heights turned out in force Tuesday and apparently approved a...

A lingering dispute over a church-run shelter for the homeless neared an amicable conclusion Wednesday night as the Schaumburg Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to approve a compromise that...

It took Chicago lawyer Janice Ekblad almost three hours of white-knuckle driving to get to Kankakee Wednesday morning for a court case. She shouldn`t have bothered. The Kankakee County courthouse,...

When Air Force reservist Faith Luebking of Des Plaines was called to a meeting a few days ago in Bahrain, she thought she might have to prepare for transfer to...

Critics called it a last-ditch effort to make good on a campaign promise when then-Cook County Sheriff James O`Grady created a suburban gang crimes unit last year. Staffed by 14...